Estonian Jesus Out Again
Rauno "Estonian Jesus" Tahvonen was eliminated late on Day 1 and decided to fire another bullet before late registration closed today.
Tahvonen had a rough going early and his stack dwindled down to 18,000 at the first break. Shortly after the break, the action folded around to him and he open-jammed pocket tens only to get called by the pocket-queens held by Mikael Zackariasen.
The board ran out all blanks and Tahvonen hit the rail. He shared with PokerNews that his team is doing well and he plans to enter the €110 NLHE Deepstack event at 3 p.m.
What he meant by team was that two percent of the prize pool is removed from each non-satellite event for a team leaderboard. Players chose their own teammates and the top two teams will walk away with big prizes with first collecting 75 percent of the leaderboard prizes and second place banking 25 percent.
Last year, there were 52 registered teams and it has gone up to 54 teams this year. The top prize last year was €16,000 and due to more events and more entrants per event it will be even bigger for the winning team this year.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
135,000 | 28,500 |
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Busted |